Thu. 1/31/13 11:56am
Katya Oddio:
We thought about those two when passing The Waffle House off I-10 last night. Still only 36F degrees here now. Here's hoping you have a fireplace there, Charlie, if the power is sketchy there. Brrr!

Thu. 1/31/13 12:12pm
northguineahills:
I had some crackers w/ a new hot sauce for breakfast.. (i was really lazy this morning). Munching on olives now, about to make migas for lunch.

Thu. 1/31/13 12:12pm
kat330:
OK, finally back to the keyboard, enjoying all the sounds, and also really enjoyed the piece just before your show began. If my Squeezebox got it right, the Mary Halvorson Quintet -- nice! :)

Thu. 1/31/13 12:13pm
Charlie:
All the cassette tape you can eat. Here's a spork.

Thu. 1/31/13 12:14pm
S.A. from S.F.:
Not seeing nearly as many of those wrecked cassettes on the street as I used to -- wrecked CDs outnumber them by at least 10 - 1.

Thu. 1/31/13 12:15pm
kat330:
While in the kitchen making a sandwich, there were big fluffy flakes of snow coming down. Now the sun's out and it has stopped.

Thu. 1/31/13 12:16pm
S.A. from S.F.:
Is there any song about CDs that is as great as C30C60C90, though?

Thu. 1/31/13 12:17pm
ndbob:
sunny and bitter cold here - minus 17 with a minus 47 wind chill when i went out to breakfast - the cd player was half frozen

Thu. 1/31/13 12:18pm
kat330:
Has anyone else ever fixed an unraveled cassette tape? I have! NOT as unraveled as the one you've pictured, but still it was quite the tedious job. Somehow scotch tape was involved, too.

Thu. 1/31/13 12:19pm
ndbob:
not me kat - it would end up getting progressively worse

Thu. 1/31/13 12:23pm
kat330:
@S.A. from S.F.: Oh, believe me, it was a looonnng time ago I did that. I still have a drawerful of cassettes, but it's been a long time since I've listened. I have tapes of my radio theater shows on a few.

Thu. 1/31/13 12:24pm
northguineahills:
I have multiple times kat, and yes, as bad as the one pictured. Tedious doesn't even cover it. I've been told I was insane and that I should quit, or at least stop yelling.

Thu. 1/31/13 12:24pm
kat330:
Hey, Katya! Where you been the past couple weeks? Good to see you again!

Thu. 1/31/13 12:26pm
Carmichael:
I used to work at a radio station producing commercials, and I had to edit tape manually. Razor knife, scotch tape, and roll it into a self-setting tape cart for DJs. This concept is still in use today, in some of the lower dollar markets.

Thu. 1/31/13 12:27pm
jan:
I've been looking forward to your show after reading the morning New York Times: an obituary on the passing of the last Andrews Sisters and a review of the Barry Manilow Concert. All I had to do was read the titles of their songs and the music was stuck in my head. Ready for the ear purge of Busy Dong Nothing.

Thu. 1/31/13 12:27pm
kat330:
Sorry about your mighty winds there, Charlie. We had it Tuesday eve and why we missed out on Yo La Tengo and Calexico. :/

Thu. 1/31/13 12:27pm
S.A. from S.F.:
@Charlie -- Wikipedia says: "The track was inspired by an episode in which Iggy Pop, during a drug-fuelled period at Bowie’s LA home, hallucinated and believed the television set was swallowing his girlfriend. Bowie developed a story of a holographic television, TVC 15. In the song, the narrator's girlfriend crawls into the television and afterwards, the narrator desires to crawl in himself to find her." Seems reasonable.

Thu. 1/31/13 12:27pm
Doug S.:
@kat330
That indeed was Mary Halvorson. The track was "The Periphery of Scandal (No. 23)"

Thu. 1/31/13 12:36pm
Katya Oddio:
Everyone here has probably re-spooled a cassette with a pencil, right? Only missed last week, kat330. Worked through the show. Always more fun when I can catch the show and you folks!

Thu. 1/31/13 12:37pm
Doug S.:
@glenn
Thanks for remembering. Yes, Matt Fiveash and his wonderful show are moving over to the Drummer Stream from our sister stream Rock 'n' Soul Ichican. Matt's show will air on Thursdays, 2-4pm, beginning next week.

♥
Thu. 1/31/13 12:38pm
Michael:
Always a pencil and always an older cassette that had something really, really good on it. Or so we thought.

Thu. 1/31/13 12:38pm
kat330:
And glenn, I have an avatar for that Matt show.

Thu. 1/31/13 12:42pm
kat330:
@Michael: Yes, a pencil was indispensible. I just opened my drawerful (two actually) of cassettes and see I still have a couple of Pfanstiehl from late '60s. Holy moley.

Thu. 1/31/13 12:44pm
kat330:
@glenn: That piece of ass is what fell from an old beater Cutlass I bought when I first moved out to L.A. ($600 bargain). I've kept it as a good luck memento. Not sure it worked, at least not out in L.A.

Thu. 1/31/13 12:44pm
Tower:
I found a cassette copy of Point of Know Return by Kansas unraveled along the road when I was a kid. Wound it back up and played it many, many times. Still one of my favorite albums, and still have the cassette.

Thu. 1/31/13 1:04pm
Katya Oddio:
Was once trapped in a yellow Subaru from NY to VT and back to NY with Ukulele Lady stuck in the cassette player and sadists who thought it was be fun to let it play the whole way. (shiver)

Thu. 1/31/13 1:11pm
kat330:
@UM: You missed out on some ass-inine avatars and comments.

Thu. 1/31/13 1:11pm
Uncle Michael:
I gotta tell y'all that the last 12+ hours has been a scramble. Some of you that know my show know that I do the live broadcast over Stickam and yesterday they announced that they're shutting down...today.

Thu. 1/31/13 1:15pm
Ike:
I've also been stuck with bad music (e.g. Andrea Bocelli, a.k.a. Popular Only Because He's Blind & Cute) on trips from NY to VT (or NH) which is why I don't hike there as much as I'd like. Next time, I will drive, and I will keep total control of my car's cassette deck, dammit!

Thu. 1/31/13 1:15pm
Matt from Springfield:
I'm sure you will, I just hope soon and with minimal interruption.

Thu. 1/31/13 1:24pm
frenchee:
or perhaps I should say
they OOMP my oomp-pah-pah!

Thu. 1/31/13 1:25pm
Parq:
Is anyone else finding that you can't "favorite" a track while it's in play? The star spins around and remains blank, until the next track gets posted. I don't know whether or not it's supposed to do that.

Thu. 1/31/13 1:26pm
kat330:
@Parq: That happens to me sometimes, but not always by any means. So I wonder if it is something else, like many trying to click at once (or even only two at the same time).

Thu. 1/31/13 1:27pm
S.A. from S.F.:
@ Parq - this "favorite" thing that some of you have puzzles me -- is that something to do with Facebook widgets?

Thu. 1/31/13 1:27pm
Matt from Springfield:
@Parq: I have noticed--though only some of the time for me. Maybe the DJ had advanced the playlist during the other ones from their end. It's a small wait in any case.

Thu. 1/31/13 1:39pm
S.A. from S.F.:
Well, that raises another question -- where's the star next to member's names?

Thu. 1/31/13 1:39pm
northguineahills:
It's been a long time since I've heard this Schneider TM.

Thu. 1/31/13 1:40pm
Matt from Springfield:
I've heard a few covers of "There Is A Light", this is the most washed-out electronica version yet!

(The Dum Dum Girls also do a great version).

Thu. 1/31/13 1:40pm
kat330:
I had thought Nancy Wilson was somehow involved in the old news parody "That Was the Week That Was," but my searching just now only showed an overlap at the 1964 Grammys. Wonder what singer I was thinking of?

Thu. 1/31/13 1:54pm
Carmichael:
If you're talking about the electronica collection "Ohm", yes, that is the musical Mecca for that genre. I'm so happy to have found it on the dollar table at a Goodwill.

Thu. 1/31/13 1:57pm
S.A. from S.F.:
For the second day in a row, I feel moved to document what I'm drinking while listening to the Drummer stream: dry sherry, while working on my resume. Not the best of combinations, of course, but not bad.

Thu. 1/31/13 1:58pm
kat330:
Thanks, Katya! And thanks, Charlie, for everything before, between and after Tengo la Voz and Yo La Tengo! May your weekend be wonderful and your winds do no damage, everybody! Bah-byeee!

Thu. 1/31/13 1:58pm
Charlie:
Hey all you groovy gals and guys, thanks for your presence here today! See y'all next time :)